Welcome back to another round of Quick Takes—a post that indulges in the topics that aren’t worth dedicating a full article to, but are still on my mind.
Each week, I try to cram in as many smaller talking points as I can via a speedier process, and I invite you to chime in with your own thoughts about these topics and anything else by keeping the discussion going in the comments below! Drop some more talking points in there for everyone to chat it up about, too!
Without further ado, let’s get into this week’s topics.
I’ve mentioned this multiple times in multiple ways, but I feel like I’m one of the only people on the planet who watches 205 Live. Even then, I do it out of necessity these days, rather than want, as it’s no longer the show it once was.
I keep saying I wish WWE would go with the most recent flow of having more than just cruiserweight matches on the show and instead, turn it into a secondary NXT program. NOT like Main Event, as that’s pointless. But more like SmackDown if NXT is Raw.
It seems like that may be finally happening with reports that “NXT Evolve” has been filmed and will even include belts that have been made already. I have a few quick thoughts on that:
I’m very excited to see this. If the reports are true in that this has been filmed in a drastically different way than the other shows, that’s even better…potentially. Change doesn’t always mean an improvement, but it does open up room for an improvement.
As I’ve written about before, I have no interest in seeing time dedicated to Bad Bunny wrestling at WrestleMania. However, WWE has to capitalize on Bad Bunny’s 24/7 Championship reign by maximizing the amount of time they get focused on Saturday Night Live.
The ideal scenario would be for the title to change hands multiple times throughout the episode as various cast members just abandon their scenes in order to pin someone for the title. If that’s asking too much, how about some backstage skits that act as interstitials where it’s a running gag throughout the show? For instance, you do a segment or two, go to a commercial, come back and there’s Lorne Michaels and company talking about how the last skit went well, then someone wins the 24/7 Championship. They drop it a few segments later in another “Hey, did you see where Kenan went?” kind of deal.
Get Colin Jost and Michael Che to do something referencing Braun Strowman as they have history. Bring back an old cast member like Steve Martin and give him the belt. Have fun with it!
But most importantly, at the very, very least, they need to have R-Truth sneak up on Bad Bunny and win the title back after his musical performance.
Many people were upset thinking Kyle O’Reilly had suffered a seizure following NXT this week. For a short while, all that was being talked about was that he had gotten stretchered out and it could have been complications from diabetes.
My immediate thoughts were “Oh my god. That’s horrible. I really, really hope this is a work.” Wrestling is strange, isn’t it? I can’t imagine another sport or television show or form of media where your gut reaction can be that you hope something is entirely fake because you know from the past that you’ve been fooled and will never fully trust anything.
Suffice it to say, it’s great that this wasn’t an actual seizure or anything and that Kyle was just selling Adam Cole’s attack. For it to be that convincing means there’s all that much more reason to consider pushing him to the moon and to give a pat on the back to those who got the fans ringside to buy 100% into it.
Many people were really upset over the WWE on FOX Twitter account tweeting out one of those “build your team for $15” posts featuring some of the female Superstars.
Like with practically everything in this world, there are points made on both sides that I agree with, yet I can’t help but to feel like this is also much ado about nothing.
Here’s the bite-size boiled down version of the arguments:
Calm down. It’s not that big of a deal. Also, the more you keep saying that you don’t care about someone’s opinion of yourself, the more you expose that you desperately want people to think you have thicker skin than you do. It’s a self-defeating task. Wolves don’t lose sleep over the opinions of sheep.
What are your takes on these topics? Keep the discussion going in the comments below!